Do You Realise

A bit of an experiment with some pastels I got recently, same general style as my last on "My Minds Eye" but a little lighter on the paper than the thick crayon of that one.

"Do you realise" is a song by the Flaming Lips

My Minds Eye

This one is inspired by the Small Faces classic "My Minds Eye" (All my stuff is generally named after songs, sometimes the song comes first and sometimes I have to retrofit). Anyway, I visited Saltaire recently and found a set of sepia pencils and decided it would be nice to do a pure sepia picture with hint of realism in the top right hand corner and a collection of my usual expressions in the lower half

Julia Says

A return to my other style this time. When I doodled this one out on the back of a beer mat in a pub I thought of doing it more in a monochrome style the same way that Braque or Picasso would

The Lion Sleeps Tonight

I started this as a doodle and it started taking a sphinx like shape so I decided to go the whole hog and put a couple of pyramids in and a "starry night" style moon

Living On The Edge

A new one just finished this weekend. I started drawing this in my notepad during a meeting at work and then decided to paint it

The Man with the Child in his Eyes

This one has been on the drawing board for a while, still not finished. It needs something superimposed over the face

Barcelona

Just got back from Barcelona, it normally has this sort of effect on me! (I bet you can't spot the influence here?.... much).

I just did this one this weekend on a small canvas 20 x 30 cm to get a bit of the Picasso/Braque Cubism & Catalonian influence out of my system... I'm better now!